Active: opening summer 2027

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CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $61.3 Million

SITE: 380 Acres (43-Acre Active Build Zone)

GENERAL CONTRACTORS: 4 Concurrent GCs

ROLE: Owner's Representative

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The Challenge:

Camp For All is a nationally recognized nonprofit that has served nearly 200,000 children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, and special needs since 1998. To meet growing demand, the organization is building a second fully barrier-free campus on nearly 380 acres in Chappell Hill — essentially constructing a small town from the ground up. The scope spans heavy civil infrastructure, specialized aquatic facilities, medical support buildings, residential cabins, and recreational venues, all held to stringent ADA accessibility standards that go well beyond minimum code requirements.

The Project is being executed by four General Contractors working simultaneously across a 43-acre active build zone, each responsible for a different portion of the campus. That structure multiplies the risk for the Owner: scope gaps between contracts, site logistics conflicts, competing schedules, and no single GC accountable for the whole. The organization needed an experienced Owner's Representative to coordinate across all four contractors and protect the Project's budget, schedule, and quality standards.

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The Scope:

Funded through Camp For All's $61.3 million Blazing New Trails capital campaign, the Chappell Hill campus is scheduled to open in summer 2027 and will double the organization's annual camper capacity. The master plan includes:

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Core Facilities

• Multipurpose Building with commercial kitchen, medical wing, and 400-capacity dining hall

• Amphitheater for outdoor events and programming

• 24/7 health center

• Arts and crafts barn and camper kitchen

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Aquatics & Recreation

• Multi-pool complex with lazy river, wheelchair-accessible mechanical lift, and beach-style entry

• 5.5-acre activity lake for canoeing, paddleboats, and fishing

• Outdoor ropes course, climbing wall, zip lines, and rope swing

• Indoor ropes course within dining hall

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Campus Life

• 20 barrier-free residential cabins with adult-sized changing tables

• Equestrian barn with specialized lifts and saddles

• Outdoor play pavilion and archery range

• Sports pavilion

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Infrastructure

• Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)

• Domestic and irrigation wells

• Full generator backup for campus-wide operations

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STEADFAST's Role:

As the Owner's Representative across all four GC contracts, my day-to-day focus is managing the boundaries between each contractor's scope to prevent gaps and overlaps. I review every pay application line by line against field progress and the schedule of values, and I monitor the construction schedule across all four contracts for conflicts and delays.

In the field, I work closely with the design team and the GCs to catch quality issues before they become embedded in the work — from enforcing ADA-compliant paving slopes across the campus to correcting cast-in-place concrete finishes in the Amphitheater to recommending improvements to concrete flooring surfaces in the Main Building. On a barrier-free campus, accessibility isn't a checkbox; it's the entire design intent, and the field execution has to match.

For the Owner, I provide comprehensive Project reporting on budget, schedule, and construction progress so the organization's leadership has clear visibility into where the Project stands — and can stay focused on their mission rather than managing construction.

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WHAT THE OWNER SAYS:

"Chuck's construction background is rooted in field work... This leads him to focus on and question the smallest details. On our Project, this has resulted in higher quality work such as cast-in-place concrete finish in the Amphitheater, slopes of paving remaining within ADA standards (important in a barrier-free camp!), and suggestions for improving the surface of the concrete flooring in the Main Building.

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Essentially Camp For All is building a small town, which means that the Project is very complex. Having an Owner's Representative, in this case STEADFAST, has proven to be vital in regards to attention to detail, budget oversight, providing an experienced understanding of construction, and advocating for our organization at all times with each construction company we are working with.

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It is essential for the success of your Project that you have an Owner's Rep. And you will regret hiring anyone else but Chuck Nelson, STEADFAST."

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— Pat Prior Sorrells, President and CEO, Camp For All